Bridgeport police ID shooting victim

Published 11:55 am, Monday, April 8, 2013

BRIDGEPORT -- Police have identified the victim in a weekend shooting as Daquan Brown, 19, of Seaview Avenue.

Brown, who suffered a non-life threatening gunshot wound to his leg, was uncooperative when police questioned him, spokesman William Kaempffer said Monday.

Brown was found shot early Sunday on Park Avenue, and told police hat he was walking with his brother in the area of Iranistan Avenue and Laurel Avenue when they encountered a male arguing with several people. The man pulled out a gun and started firing it, the victim stated.

The victim and his brother then ran, Brown told Officer Esther Hailey, and the two men got separated.

Brown texted his bother from St. Vincent's Medical Center, where he was being treated, but refused to provide police with a contact number for his brother, Kaempffer said.